Letter: 'Goodies' have a price

You might have titled your Nov. 13 editorial on health exchanges "the devil is in the details." You extoll the goodies in Obamacare without one word about how this monstrosity will be paid for.

Under Tennessee's last governor (a Democrat) over 200,000 people were purged from the TennCare rolls as the program was going to bankrupt the state. If Tennessee officials opt in to running the health exchange, they will be agreeing to an unfunded mandate by the federal government (the state's share of the cost of Medicaid).

State Medicaid rolls will explode under Obamacare as companies pay the fine, which is vastly less than insuring their employees. As more and more Tennesseans are put on Medicaid, the bill will start coming due. All the "goodies" in Obamacare were front-loaded, with the cost of this monstrosity only starting to phase in from 2013 thru 2016. We will see how Tennesseans feel about it when the true cost becomes apparent.

Of course, the real purpose of Obamacare is to create such chaos in health care that people will clamor for the federal government to come to the "rescue" with a single-payer plan.